Ye Buyu knew the art of praise well. She gave him a thumbs-up. "As expected of you, the Hold Up the Heavens Team's dependable backbone."
"By the way, when you faced the [Perception Controller] just now, did you sense any Calamity Aura?"
Lou Guanshan considered it. "For a few seconds, and it was very strong. If my deduction is right, its aura never stopped leaking from the moment it left the temperature control unit."
Ye Buyu recalled the scene. The [Perception Controller] had brazenly announced its name, yet fled without hesitation.
There was a certain contradiction between its personality and behavior, which could count as a suspicious point.
Following that line of reasoning, its flight seemed more like a strategy. There were only a few possible reasons for a Calamity to do that.
It had a deeper scheme, and it was not yet time to show its hand.
It could not win. But judging by that assured, confident tone, there was only one possibility in that case: that thing was not its main body.
There was another possibility: it wanted to hide something.
Ye Buyu boldly proposed a hypothesis. "Lou Guanshan, do you think it's possible that it wasn't afraid of Seniors Bai Zhao and Xue Qing, but was in a hurry to hide its weakness?
"For example... it could only conceal its aura by possessing an object."
"Let's keep that hypothesis." Lou Guanshan raised a new question. "I've been wondering why I only sensed the Calamity Aura for an instant earlier, before it quickly disappeared."
"Mm, that counts as a clue too. Let's see whether the surveillance footage can give us more useful information."
Ye Buyu set the playback to double speed and skimmed through the surveillance recordings, finally finding an anomaly in the footage from five days earlier.